Senior OT Specialist & Team Lead

Children and Family Health Devon; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Part time

Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon is recruiting a Specialist Occupational Therapist (0.7 wte) to deliver expert OT support within the Experts at Hand service, offering assessment, intervention and leadership across a multidisciplinary team for children and young people with complex needs in the community.

The post will lead training, supervise staff, and contribute to service development as the model expands across Devon, Exeter area, and beyond, with opportunities to influence care planning and

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of child development.
• Advanced training in specialist clinical area.
• Audit and quality improvement training.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teams.
• Risk management knowledge.
• Clinical governance knowledge.
• Experience presenting complex information to staff and senior management.
• Experience implementing changes in service design and delivery.
• Understand legal responsibilities of the profession and health and social care delivery.
• Knowledge of NSFs, local government, and health policies and procedures, safeguarding adults.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Experience managing patients with complex conditions.
• Experience in specialist assessment relevant to your specialist field.
• High level of professional skills in a specialist health or social care setting.
• Experience safeguarding vulnerable adults and/or children.
• Knowledge of clinical guidelines and implementation in practice.
• Experience with complaints management and resolution.
• Ability to write and present a business case.
• Ability to analyse data.
• Team-based working to promote change and development.

Responsibilities

• Provide Specialist OT assessment and intervention for a caseload of complex cases.
• Provide supervision to OT staff across CFHD.
• Support OT staff across Physical and Sensory Pathways.
• Screen and triage referrals with strengths-based assessment, planning and evaluation.
• Contribute to risk assessment and care planning with children and families.
• Hold caseloads of children with highly complex needs.
• Case manage identified caseloads using evidence-based care.

Skills

Child development

Advanced specialist training

Audit and quality improvement

Multidisciplinary team

Risk management

Clinical governance

Complex information delivery

Service design changes

Legal responsibilities

NSFs and health policy

Clinical reasoning

Complex conditions management

Specialist assessment

Education

BSc/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy

HCPC registration

CPD portfolio

Postgraduate leadership certificate

MSc in relevant area

Job description

Children and Family Health Devon is recruiting a Specialist Occupational Therapist (0.7 wte) to deliver expert OT support within the Experts at Hand service, offering assessment, intervention and leadership across a multidisciplinary team for children and young people with complex needs in the community.

The post will lead training, supervise staff, and contribute to service development as the model expands across Devon, Exeter area, and beyond, with opportunities to influence care planning and